What’s On
NEW GALLERIES
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London, opens 20 September www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum
Four new galleries are opening at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to celebrate the pioneering explorers of the globe’s oceans. Tudor and Stuart Seafarers will look at the roles played by pirates and monarchs, as well as the expansion of Britain’s naval power. Both Polar Worlds and Pacific Encounters hear from those who travelled to uncharted territories, while Sea Things examines the personal stories and relationships people have with the sea.
The polar exhibits will explore Ernest Shackleton’s 1912 expedition in the Endurance, amongst others
Statue of Grace Darling, who helped to rescue shipwrecked sailors in 1838, and the frontispiece of the 1588 Mariner’s Mirror